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Arranged Marriages in the Sikh Diaspora by Michael Colley Many Westerners, who have grown up with the idea that marriage is the ultimate bond between two people who have fallen in love, find the idea of arranged marriages alternately fascinating and bizarre. But in areas in the world where arranged marriages are practiced (such as India), they seem as natural as the idea of "falling in love" seems to us. One of the interesting things about Sikhs, as wells as some other groups of people in India, is that they have moved to many different parts of the world and taken much of their culture with them. Because of this, there is an opportunity to see what happens when two different cultures interact and perhaps exchange or adapt to each other's ideas. The focus of this paper is the see how the dispersal of Sikhs around the world has affected the practice...

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